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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-08


that study and expa7 7ence in adaptation
of truth to teachabls minds on the part
of the teacher cannot enrich it.
~ Another objection is sometimes
stated thus: "The passages are too
orthodox' But they are surely Bible
language, and the Bible is not an, ortho.
dox book. We shouA greet with pleas
ure any opportunity of presenting any
text in it's true meaning. Bible threat
enings are all easily explained by lit
tie time taken in study by the teacher,
assisted, if necessary, by the pastor.
(3) 1t is sometimes said the lessons
are not adapted to the older students in
the school. The subjects involved are
not large enough, orEof sufficient scope,
to arrest their attention. But think The
Bible is the record Of religion. It
contains the truth Of God revealed to
the world for its redemption. Do our
teachers and pupils ever think of that
1t was large enough to arrest the atten-
ton of st. Paul, and Of all the great
Christian souls who have lived since
his day. 1t engages the thought of the
greatest thinkers Of our day. Ought
not the youth in our Sunday schools to
find something in it to repay studyp
(4) Agail-it is remarked In teach
ing from the lesson paper we are sub
stituting that for the Bible. But it is
the Bible The lesson is the Bible
let us not forget that. In conclusion,
the speaker urged upon those present,
the use of the International lessons as
the best method of formulating instruc-
tion. There is some discomfort regard
ing the whole subject, but this will
lead to continual Improvement, and SO
we shall make constant progress toward
the best. God send us the man who
will give us the best Let us have
Sunday school CONVENTIONS, expert tes-
timony, all the aids we can get. These
will give us good schools filled with the
true spirit.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-08

An attractive young lady was postmis-
tress in Michigan town. One day she
"drew the prize" as they style it in the
postofice, and was removed. Do you
think she surrendered on that account?
Decidedly not. 1t is said you can't get
ahead OF a Michigan girl. She married
her successor.
Our annual collections have failed to do
their duty. Should they "draw the prize"
and give way to better plan, or would
it not be better for them to marry their
successor?
If the Universalist church could per-
suade this promising couple (annual col
lections and Sunday collections) to join
their hearts and hands and together take
charge of the finances Of our General
and State Convention, these bodies would
doubtless fad themselves well provided
with funds to carry on the vast and i'm
portant work which they have to do
q. RALsToN AYRRs.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-08
THE WOMEN,s AssocIArIoN.

The afternoon session was given to
the annual meeting of the Universalist
Women's Association of the State.
The exercises were opened by devo-
tional services, and an address from
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-08

Rev. l.. W. Brigham, presented his an
nual report, a voluminous document,
bristling with facts and figures of inter-
est to the church. 1t will be published
in full in an early issue, the detail char
aeter of the document forbidding any
satisfactory abstract. This report was
also referred to the Committee on Re-
ports.
The reading of the reports consumed
the time of the first session.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21
The Presidents Fortune.

The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore American writes:
1t has been stated that Mr.. Cleve
land does not expend more than half
his salary, if, indeed, his expenses ex-
coed forty per cent. of his income, and
he will doubtless have at least $780,,
600 of his compensation as president
remaining when he leaves the White
House, if he does leave it, on the 4th
of March, 1889. A friend of his, who
is i'll position to speak with force on
the subject, says that when he was in
augurated the president had $65,OOO
in hard cash. This money was princi
pally out of his fees while sheriff of
Erie county. His four political cam
paigns, in which he was elected sue
cessively TO the shrievalty of Erie cOun-
ty, to the position of mayor of Buffalo,
governor of New York, and president
of the United States, cost him in all in
round figures $4,000. With the $685.
600, therefore, which he had when he
entered the White House, the 100000
which he will save and the fortune of
his wife, President Cleveland will have
in the neighbOrhoOd of 100000 as
fortune on which to begin life anew
when he leaves the White House. Care
fully invested, this would yield him an
income sufficient to take care of him
very comfortably for the rest of his
days.
ain what is his money invested 2"
inquired your correspondent.
81 don't think the president has any
investments other than bank deposits.
He was never of a speculative turn of
mind and never engaged in specula
tive enterprise. l think the greater
portion of his money at least is depos-
tied in banks in Albany and Buffalo,
with perhaps some in New York, and
L do not believe Cleveland is likely to
invest it anywhere in hope of securing
big dividends, unless he is absolutely
satisfied that his investment will be
safe. When he dies his wife will have
perhaps $4,000 from life insurance
policies to add to his savings. He has
no very heavy insurance on his life,
for the reason that within the past two
or three years the principal companies
have instructed their agents that they
do not care for risks on the life of the
president, because of his mode Of liv-
ing and his disposition to apOplexy.
He will probably devote his time to
ease and comfort. 1t is likely his
name will be in demand for the presi-
dency of one or more corporations, and
from this source he will be able to de-
rive very respectable incOme."
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21
How Mrs. Stowe wrote ssUncIe Tom.'

Hartford CONN., Letter.
''No, write no more. 1 have done,
| have done, have DONE"
Anything more pitiful, more pathet-
&c, more tragic, cannot be imagined
than the effect of the above few words,
coming in broken and faltering accents
from the lips of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
That the bright intellect of the au-
thor of "Uncle Toms Cabin" is un-
doubtedly shattered cannot be longer
denied.
eyes, my dear, loved to write, and
began very young. | especially liked
writing stories when lived in Bruins
wick, Me. For these | used to get SIS,
$50 and S25-good pay in those times.
| never thought of writing a book when
L commenced Uncle Toms Cabin
became first reused on the subject oil
slavery when lived in Cincinnati, and
used to see escaping slaves come over
the Ohio from Kentucky. All, me it
thrills me even now, the sight of those
creatures Now, a young girl, sug-
costing the lover, parent or brother
for whom her heart was breaking in
bondage; again, the strong husband,
aged father or stalwart brother. Oh
| must write a story to stop the dread
full shame! l kept putting it off,
dreading to bring the character to life,
till the fugitive slave law dashed me
into fury and l commenced what i
meant to be short story like the 9th
ers. But it grew, and grew, and grew,
and came, and came, and came.
wrote, and wrote, and wrote and final
ly thought never should stop. l did
not plan the book as it turned out.
was only full of the wrath, and the
story built itself around it as L wrote.
A publisher was waiting for story
from me. told him the subject L had
undertaken. He wrote saying: you
have struck a popular subject; for
heavens sake keep it short | wrote
in reply: Il shall stop when 1 get
through-not before He never got it,
for had to make book of it. While
writing it l was filled with an enthusi
asm which transfused my being, knew
no hinderance, no rival interest, no be-
lief but in writing it. 1 had young
children, was keeping house and teach
ing school at the time, and never
worked so hard to write. Dinner had
to be got l knew. This had to be
written, just as much-aye, and more,
too. 1t was as though it was written
through me, only holding the pen.
| was lifted off my feet. Satisfied
[ never thought about being satisfied.
When it was finished it was done, and
relief came. l never felt the same
with anything | afterward wrote"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21
In A Dark Tunnel.

Many are the adventures | had by
''field and food" as well as from com
ing in contact with semi-civilized peO-
plies, writes Bicyclist Stevens in Har-
per's Young People.
When | arrived at the Sierra Nevada
mountains, found the roads buried
beneath 10 feet of snow, and the noun
tains utterly impossible for wheel
man. Through this snowy region
however, the Central Pacific railway
company has built snow shed AZ
miles long over their track, so that the
road may not be blOckaded in the win
| ter.
The only way to cross the mountains
was to take the train or to trundle my
bicycle through the long gloomy snow
sheds for 40 miles, in which l might
we'll expect to find no ridable ground
the whole way. AS had set out with
the determination to use no other mode
of travelling than the bicycle, except
of course, when crossing the oceans,
concluded to wheel my own way
through the snow sheds.
AS if in reply to my own imagina-
tiOns concerning the matter, when
about in the middle of the tunnel, and
in its most gloomy depths, heard the
rumbling roar of an approaching train.
The clatter and din of the train made
it difficult to judge how far it might be
away, as it filled the whole tunnel with
a deafening rumble, and more than
Egyptian darkness reigned about me.
Feeling the way with my foot, gain
ed the outer edge of the tunnel on the
right, but the space between the rocky
side and the rail seemed too small to
stand in without being struck by the
train. Crossing over to the other side,
as near as l could tell in the dark, the
same state of affairs seemed to exist
there also. Nearer and nearer came
the rushing train, and it seemed as if
[ were doomed to he caught and man
gled. Fearing to make matters worse
by moving about in the uncertainty of
affairs about me, hattened myself
against the rocks as we'll as possible,
and awaited the result with what COM
posture was possible under the circum-
stances.
The fitful glow of the engines fires
flor it was long, heavy freight train
with three engines), revealed to my
eager vision a somewhat wider space a
few yards further along. Springing
thlther with the eagerness OF person
escaping from the jaws of death, |
reached the place but moment before
the cowcatcher of the leading engine
swept past.
The smoke of the three engines was
nearly suffOcating, and if the tunnel
was pitchy dark before, no word can
properly describe the dense, palpable
character of the darkness after the
the three putting engines had filled it
with sulphurOus smoke. 1 did not lin
ger to find out whether my apprehen-
sions about my first place of refuge
were well grounded or not, but started
at once to grope my way through the
awful darkness and dense smoke to-
ward the end of the tunnel, which l
reached an hour later without further
except stumbling into a
culvert or two.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21
One Gentleman.

On a crowded East Boston horse-ca
the other evening, the seats of which
were nearly all occupied by men, a
cutting rebuke answered by a neat
compliment was overheard. Shortly
after the car left the ferry there got
aboard young lady, whose pallid and
careworn face marked her as an in
valid. None of those having a seat at
their disposal deigned to offer seat
to the one who seemed most in need of
the resting place till at the further end
of the car roughly-dressed working
man, seeing her plight, beckoned to
her, and, resigning his seat in her be-
half said: "There don't seem, Miss,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21

We must not forget John circuit.
John circuit was too unimaginative
a person to be surprised much at any
thing. There was nothing in the Office
of "TO-DAY," which, sooner or later,
he had not done. In his time he had
swept the floor, he had watered it with
a waterproof, he had set type, he had
he had folded other newspapers. He
had made out bills andhe had collect
ed them. Also he had failed to collect
them. He had written book notices
and theatre notices; and critiques on
Wagner's music. He had reported a
base ball match in the afternoon, and
with the same pen discussion on pre-
destination in the evening. He had
eaten good dinners with the political
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21

A new Anti Poverty society.-Oma-
ha NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to joint our an
ti-pOverty society," Anarchistic citi-
zen-Been waitin' to join the anti-pov-
erty society ever since i heard of it,,
but l amt got the 81. "Don't cost a
cent. All you have to do is to sign
your name to this paper" "Hurray |!
Gimme the paper. What does If saw sn
"It's temperance pledge. ri Omaha
World.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21

When the great editor returned on
Monday morning, he drove directly to
John Orcutt's home. 1t was in the
fifth story of the Wellington apartment
hotel.
"Mrs. Orcutt, l am sure you will
give me breakfast. Heaven knows
what might find at my quarters.
want to talk to your husband" And
"John, l was just in time. They
hated me, but they listened. They
had not looked at my telegram, had
not even lighted their pipes with it.
John, we saved them from the greatest
blunder they have made yet. And to
say that is to say great deal, as you
know. But all is well that ends well.
They are saved the country is saved /;
nay, the world is saved, till somebody
somewhere makes another blunder.
We will try to forget this one.
"Now, | want to talk about our
selves. l bought our paper Sunday as
L crossed the ferry. Who wrote our
leader on the island row 7"
The chiefs manner was perfectly
impassive. He broke his egg without
the least feeling. Was the leader all
right or all wrOngf John Orcutt had
not the faintest idea. But the truth
must be told.
"YOung Mr.. Pringle did it," said he.
al told him the truth must be found
and stated, and l gave him four hours
to do it.n
The chief looked gravely at John
and nodded. la a minute he said 81
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21
Worse and Worse.
Rnrlinnton Eree Press.


A Lake George correspondent caps
the climax in stories about the Lake
Champlain sea serpent. He says: "The
sea serpent lately seen by q party of
picnickers, among whom was min
lister, on Lake Champlain and which
measured seventy-fve feet in length
and was as large as a milkcan, has left
the lake and is making his way in the
direction of Lake George overland.
He was seen last night about 5 o'clock
by farmer while driving to his barn
with load of hay. CHANGING to look
behind from his perch on the load he
saw sight which he will never forget
as long as he lives. Not five rods be-
hind him, gliding along like a snake
with his head raised about four feet
from the ground, was an immense
monster anywhere from 25 to IS feet
in length, with grey and black streaks
running lengthwise of its body, which
was covered with scales. When the
farmer first saw it the monster was
making directly for him, but as the
farmer began to shout for assistance to
his men whom he had left in the field,
it suddenly changed its course and
disappeared into some dense under
brush. Its trail was plainly seen, but
SO great was the fear of the farmer
after seeing it that he would not let
his men follow the serpent, which he
says he has no doubt is the true and
only sea serpent of Lake Champlain.
By the general direction of its trail it
is thought it has reached Lake George
ere this, and is no doubt resting be-
meath its Iimpid waters, from the ia
tigue of its Journey"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21

to be any gentlemen on this car" 81
beg your pardon, sir, am sure there
is one," she replied, gratefully, as she
accepted the seat
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21

If you wish to know just how little
patience you have left, try to raise a
refractory car window to please fidg-
ETY. woman on hot day. Martha's
Vineyard Herald.
"Don't you suppose" said a member
of the public force, s'that policeman
knows a rogue when he sees him !"
"No Doubt" was the reply, "but the
trouble is that he does not seize a rogue
when he knows him. Buffalo Com
mercial.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-07-21
Josh Billings, Scrap Book.

The late Josh Billings told me once,
says Chicago Mail writer, that his
first experience on the lecture platform
was the making of him. 'I had been
writing a good deal" he said, "and the
stuff was pretty we'll received. At
least l thought it was. l got it print
ed and a good deal of it was paid for.
imagined | was little the biggest
man in New York, and certainly the
best known man outside the city, ex-
cept Greedy. l had made a scrap book
of my writings and concluded l would
give readings from there. l made an
engagement to give such reading at
small town in New Jersey. carried
my book with me and put up at the
one hotel in great style. The landlord
did not seem remarkably overawed by
my presence, which was somewhat
dampening. | gave him a half dozen
tickets for the lecture. When / came
on the platform there were but seven
persons in the hall, six of them being
from the hotel, and the seventh a
small boy who came in free. When /
got back to the hotel l called the land
lord into my room and had him bring
me all the old newspapers he could
find and a ball of cord. l took out my
book, wrapped dozen or SO of news
papers around it, and then began
winding the cord. / wound that en-
tire ball about the bundle and tied the
ends in double knot.
"The landlord had watched the pro-
ceedings intently, and when L had
finished my wrapping he inquired what
the proceedings meant. l told him
was going back to New York to go to
work, and l did not propose to unite
that book until l could do so in his
town and before an audience that
would fill the house. | went back to
the city," continued Mr.. Shaw, "and
struck out on a new lead. Two years
after L received an invitation to lecture
in this same town. | had been wait
ing for this. l took out my old book
and took it along to see how things
looked. When | came on the platform
| found an audience so tightly packed
that the last man had to leave his cane
in the vestibule for lack of room. /
took out my book and unwrapped it
before them, telling the story as l did
SO. 1t was this shutting up of the past
and beginning again that saved me-or
at least made me what | am"
Mamma Ito Walter, who has just re-
turned from his first experience with a
fishing rod)-"What back so soon 7"
Walter-"Y thought I'd come
home. The worms were SO nervous l
couldn't get 'em OH the hooks. y Har-
per's Bazaar.
Lovers are prone to self-deprecia-
ton. Said he tenderly, as they sat
looking at the stars: 81 do not under
stand what you can see in me that you
love me-" "That's what every body
says" gurgled the ingenious maiden.
Then the silence became SO deep that
You could hear the stars twinkling.-
Boston Courier.
The New York Tribune answers it's
own cOnundrum, "Why are those reb-
ell flags like President Cleveland 2"
with: because they are not to be re-
turned" That is right, really; but
the answer should be expressed thus:
because they are to remain where
they are."-[ Chicago Times.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17
Thanks.

The Southern Soldiers Memorial AS
ISOLATION of Shepherdstown takes this
method of thanking most heartily all
for the services they rendered the Asso-
citation on Saturday last, Confed crate
Memorial day. The Hon. VIM. L. Will
son for the happy manner in which he
presided; The Rev. DR.. Hopkins and
Henry Kyd Douglas for their pleasing
and instructive remarks; the Revs. A.
A. P. Neel and D. NJ. Moser; the Luth.
eran Choir and Silver COrnet Band for
the music that contributed so much to
the exercises of the occasion; to the Y.
NJ. c. A. for their organ; to all who
aided in paying a just tribute to the
memory of the Confederate dead.
By order of the Association.
COMMITTEE.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17
Items Of Interes &.

General Sherman has written letter
to leaders in the Grand Army Of the
Republic. rebuking the spirit manifested
by some members of the order against
holding the annual reunion i'm st. Louis
when President Cleveland was visiting
that city next fall.
The Synod of the Reformed Presby-
terrain Church Of America, in session at
Newburgh, n. T., Tuesday adopted the
resolutions denouncing secret societies,
and forbidding admission to the church
to members OF all secret orders. In the
course of the debate Free-Masonry was
bitterly denounced.
An elderly lady, who recently died in
West Chester, Pa, left in her will ST.
500, the interest of which is to be appli-
ed to support her dog. After the death
of the dog the money is to go to St.
Peters Great Valley Protestant Episco-
pal Church. The provisions Of the will
are to be carried out.
The visible supply OF grain on Satur-
day, June II, as compiled by the New
York Produce Exchange, was as fol-
lows: Wheat 42.ll5,176 bushels, de-
crease 33S, sos; corn II, $40, 074, decrease
1913 ,23S; oats 3 1885,, sos, decrease nc, 5l9;
rye 253,SS0, decrease, 5,464; barley
l6S, Sl5, decrease ,735.
A trunk was taken to the Baltimore
and Potomac Railroad depot in Wash
ington the other day, which emitted
such frightful odor that the Railroad
officials thought it contained dead
body, and had il carted off TO the police
station, where it was found TO contain
not corpse, but quantity of Timber
ger cheese.
Mrs. Annie Griffith, of Philadelphia,
in a fiji of insanity Saturday cut the
throat of her ten-yrar-old daughter Ma
bel with a razor and then drew the
weapon across her own throat, dying
almost instantly. The child died Il few
hours later. Mrs. Griffith had been sick
for some time, and her mental and phys.
ical condition had of late been growing
worse.
Louisa county, Va, is excited over
the alleged fact that after a white hand
kerchief, which had been folded four
thick and laid over the face of dead
woman had been removed, there were
four distinct pictures Of the woman,
about the size of twenty-five cent
piece, plainly printed on the cloth.
Spirits of camphor had been applied to
the face before the handkerchief was
laid on it.
The town of Trenton, Missouri, and
vicinity have been infested for the past
week by an Insect the description of
which agrees fully with species of
cantharides, or Spanish fly. The insects
come in perfect swarms, and they not
only devour vegetation with avidity,
but their vesicating power on the human
body is equal fully to cantharides.
Fully thousand people in Trenton are
at present nursing blisters caused by
this insect, and lights in residences at
night have been almost abandoned for
fear of attracting the poisonous insect.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-06-17
A Lucky POsipOnement.

Mr.. Geo. II. Poindexter was conduct
ing an auction sale Of the tobacco facto-
nv of Ii. Edwards, in Richmond, We'd
nesday. At two o'clock he suggested
that as those present were probably
weary, the sale of machinery on the
second floor of the factory should be
postponed till next day. This sugges-
ton was briefly discussed and finally
agreed to-a very lucky agreement, as
the sequel showed, for at -four o'clock
the second floor of the factory gave way,
falling and carrying a large quantity of
machinery down with it. About one
hundred persons had been present at the
sale, and a look at the ruins indicates
that few would have lived had the sale
been continued. But for the fortunate
stopping of the sale before the second
story was reached, there would have
been many a mourning family in Rich
mond to-day.